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Water Access is Urgent During Outbreak
You can’t wash your hands if your water has been shut off. Detroiters who have been fighting for a moratorium on water shutoffs for years finally received good news when Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a plan to stop shutoffs and directed the City of Detroit to reconnect water service for all residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. While over 350 US cities and states have pledged to stop new shutoffs nationwide, far fewer have committed to restoring water service. But announcing that water restorations are available does not mean the public health crisis has been fixed. Thousands of affected residents in Detroit and across the country need emergency water today.
Can Robots Find Our Lead Service Lines? Durfee Elementary School Students Think They Can!
These kids asked me to teach them about lead in water, then they came up with this innovative concept for speeding up lead service line replacement programs. If we can use their lead pipe detecting worm-bot to find all the lead pipes, we can save a lot of money and provide safer drinking water.
Protecting Drinking Water in the Great Lakes States
With increased attention on localized public health concerns related to drinking water, it is up to everyone to learn where their drinking water comes from; understand what consumer confident reports tell us; and advocate for improvements in laws, regulations, and policies that directly affect the safety of our drinking water. We also need to better understand where our influence and advocacy efforts are needed.
Questions about the Revised Michigan Lead and Copper Rule? We've got answers
Questions about Michigan’s new Lead and Copper Rule? Fear not. UM project partners have created a FAQ page for some of the most important questions that consumers, public officials, and water utilities have.
What's in the new Michigan Lead and Copper Rule?
There’s a lot going on in the new Michigan Lead and Copper Rule. We developed an infographic to help explain it.
